More than 40,000 flying foxes have moved into the area along the King Charles V Avenue and the Peel River in Tamworth.

The bats are a mixture of grey-headed flying foxes and red flying foxes.

The Tamworth Council says the residents underneath are having a hard time, unable to use rain water tanks and backyards, but it says it has not received many complaints.

The Council's Manager of Environment and Health, Ross Briggs said the Council will next month meet to consider a management plan for the flying fox camp.

"When we get the go ahead to look at habitat modification, we'll probably start in the lightly populated colony areas and thin out some of the understory, get rid of the noxious weeds, some of the locust trees and bamboo and willows along that area .. and that might make that habitat less desirable for future visits." He said.

As an interesting side note, while the bats are in the area, other birds of prey like hawks have moved in access the new food supply.